Humans last shared a common ancestor with chimpanzees about 80 million years ago 200 million years ago 2 million years ago 8 million years ago 800,000 years ago
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Species Known Date Range Australopithecus afarensis 3.85-2.95 million years ago Homo erectus 1.89 million years ago-143,000 years ago Homo neanderthalensis 400,000-40,000 years ago Homo sapiens 200,000 years ago-present Homo sapiens Present 1 mya 2 mya 3 mya 4 mya mya= millions of years ago; 0.5 mya = 500,000 years ago
Sri K.
"Humans evolved from chimpanzees". This statement is incorrect from an evolutionary standpoint because humans and chimpanzees are genetically dissimilar humans and chimpanzees do not share a common ancestor humans and chimpanzees are part of a monophyletic clade the ancestor of humans and chimpanzees was neither a human nor a chimpanzee
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